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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I realized admitting fault is kind of a power move. You can just be like “oh! I was wrong. Woops” and what might have been a like hour long argument about some unimportant minutia instead just wraps up. Nothing bad happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you have to make them see you as a member of a shared in-group. That’s the most important thing to them (and many people, honestly. we’re all susceptible to tribalism and such)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to guess

  • poor media coverage
  • media is explicitly hostile to protests and pro trump/right-wing-extremism
  • many people are living paycheck to paycheck + we have minimal labor protection
  • years of left-wing organizations being kneecapped (eg: the murder of fred hampton)

  A lot of people are angry but there’s not really much organization. As much as I would love someone to take 50,000 of their closest friends, march down to DC, and shoot every republican in the head, without years of organizing that’s just a fantasy. Unfortunately, the right wing has been doing years of organizing and it’s now bearing fruit for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know any republicans personally but I would not be surprised if, given a choice between admitting fault and feeling bad, or literally any other option including lying or violence, they won’t admit fault. If they weren’t emotionally stunted, they wouldn’t be conservatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No one went “straight to murder”. There have been decades of struggle.

  You’re also describing the “boxes of liberty” thing. “To be used in order: soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can RFK Jr please get bird flu? Just him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it kind of funny how games are becoming more mainstream, but every once in a while I still meet people that are like “games are a waste of time”. But then again I guess people said that about movies and tv and still do sometimes.

  Also I’ve been playing guild wars 2 again. Base game is like 10 years old but it’s still fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He allegedly shot someone who was killing many other people for money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why can’t this asshole die of measles? Probably because he’s vaccinated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tesla protests are getting bigger — and rowdier⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. Escalate further. I want to see musk sobbing in fear before the lights go out of his eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A quarter of startups in Y Combinator's current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole “most startups lose a lot of money and fail, but some will be wildly successful” model is kind of rotten. Especially when the "wild success " often means breaking laws or becoming consumer hostile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It only took a day for LA Times' new AI tool to sympathize with the KKK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to remember a lot of people are colossally stupid, but still are in positions to make decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨By canceling town halls, Republicans treat the symptom, not the problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is every republican idea is a bad one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you rather be trapped in Groundhog Day or the Truman show?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Groundhog’s day if the day is pretty normal. Not like a day where I have the flu or AWS is down. There’s a lot of books to read, movies to watch, one night stands to have.

  Also I think my friends would believe me that groundhog day was happening. Might be able to get a slightly better situation than the movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Laws only matter if they are enforced.

  The right wing doesn’t care about law or consistency. They care about in-groups to protect and out groups to bind.

  If “how do treat strangers” is a viable metric for assessing if someone is a good person or not, the the right wing are not good people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sergey Brin urges workers to the office ‘at least’ every weekday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pray to Saint Luigi for guidance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love the future.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy should be, at the very least, removed from office. I don’t care if it’s handcuffs or a body bag.

  Fuck. I just want to thanos snap away all the republicans. The absolute worst people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨place yer bets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone saying “they can evacuate” clearly doesn’t remember how bad the covid response was.

  There will be anti-space conspiracy theorists. The ownership class would demand people continue working until the last possible minute (and beyond). It would be politicized, because some people are unbelievably stupid, cruel, and selfish, and enough people are so stupid they’ll buy in.

  Now, if we could make the meteor fall on a location occupied solely by the people who don’t believe in science…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar has some of the most restrictive mission design I've ever experienced⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reminded of the abyssal words in Elden Ring’s expansion. There are signs that tell you “Don’t let them see you!” and “You have to hide and run!”. You find an area with some tall grass and some creepy eye-monsters. And sure enough, if they see you they come running at you. They’ll knock you over, grab you, and explode your head.

  Clearly you’re supposed to sneak by them.

  But…

  spoiler

  You can also parry their attack, and then just kill them. Or just fucking book it and run past them, but that’s way harder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinion | If Trump Triggers a Constitutional Crisis, No Part of Society Can Remain Silent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe if the New York Times wasn’t such a blandly conservative institution things would be mildly better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What we all want deep down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some people who want to be wealthy to the tune of flaunting it, making other people figuratively or literally bow down to them. Those people should not be allowed to have power.

  If I was somehow a billionaire, I like to think I’d be spending my money on socially useful stuff. More libraries. More infrastructure. Housing. Can an ultra rich person essentially run public housing and transit, at least on a city-wide scale? Probably. but the kind of person who gets to be ultra rich is probably an asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ye Takes Back Apology and Calls Himself a Nazi in Social Media Rant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really want to live in a world of vigilante violence, but I wouldn’t be that mad if someone was like “I’m a nazi I love hitler”, sincerely, or even just trolling, and someone shot them dead. Putting up with hate is a mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Republican party is the far right. The Democratic party is almost everyone else- less far right, moderate, center-left, a handful of lefties. It’s not surprising they don’t have cohesion.

  Also the American public seems especially stupid. That’s probably aggravated by decades of right wing media and insufficient investing in education. But maybe everywhere has a lot of stupid people and we’re not exceptional on this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guild Wars 2 in 2025 is a MASTERPIECE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the only MMO I’ve played that doesn’t routinely irritate me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking Hell NY Times can you please just not be a myopic piece of shit and actually call a nazi a nazi. All of this enabling hang-wringing pearl-clutching nonsense is part of how we got in this problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We could do a lot for climate change, world hunger, homelessness, disease prevention and eradication, and so on with that much money.

  All of these people are doing mass murder via opportunity cost, and I hope they pay for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  teenager who acts like a dick all the time would be equally annoying.

  Was Morrigan popular when da:o was new? She’s an extremely edgy teenager.

  This topic would be great for a dontnod game that could appropriatly handle that topic - not an RPG.

  I really don’t think queer stuff needs to be banished from the realm of RPGs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people I talked to have refunded the game on steam. Nobody really had fun with it, except for one person that was completely new to dragon age. However, I don’t think she finished it either.

  Meanwhile, the 3 people I know who played it all enjoyed it. Anecdotes!

  I don’t think so. The writing of Taash was so bad and uncomfortable for the most part that I genuinely didn’t know if they were trying to mock trans-people with this representation. It felt like they were just looking at a terminally online twitter user and modeled the character after that. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that taash is the worst character I’ve ever experienced in a triple A production.

  Taash’s scenes seemed okay to me. The storyline with their mother is pretty close to what a friend of mine is going through now.

  I don’t know how to solve this problem, but I kind of don’t believe what people say. I mean, I think sometimes they dislike a thing for reason A, but the words that come out are reason B. They say a character is badly written (B), but really they find the queer subject matter uncomfortable (A). This may or may not be the case, but fundamentally I do not believe the average internet video game fan has the introspection and honesty to say “A” here. There’s no way to know.

  Veilguard, on the other hand, doesn’t get better. It just stays bad and even confusing at times.

  My problem with Veilguard is the difficulty fell off a cliff and never climbed back up. Other than that it was fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. That’s neat I guess.

  My initial guess was it would somehow capture the energy from hitting keys. I guess that’s implausible? Too little energy without making the key press resistance too high?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Flawlessly clearing Genichiro in Sekiro was deeply satisfying. Parry parry parry, dodge, mikiri counter. Don’t think I got hit once.